On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:59:18PM -0800, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> > I have a 80% port of Redhat 7.0 which is based on a fairly recent glibc.
> > It's running mostly solid for me and that also inludes things such as
> > threading and binary compatibility with glibc 2.0. I'm uploading the
> > glibc 2.1.95 now to oss.sgi.com:/pub/linux/mips/glibc/; the rest of the
> > distribution will follow in about two days. Not earlier for bandwidth
> > reasons, I'm on a 28k8 bps diet ;-)
>
> That's great! Few questions: By 80% do you mean that there are some obscure
> packages are not available? Does glibc 2.1.95 also contain glibc-devel?
> Can one upgrade only glibc (and glibc-devel) on one of our origins
> which has Hard Hat 5.1?
In theory it should work. Still a backup sounds like an excellent idea :-)
- make a backup
- install rpm
- run rpm --rebuilddb
- install glibc, then all the other packages.
Most of the other 20% are stuff like KDE packages which rely on an older
compiler package which I haven't yet ported. With a compat-egcs package
porting KDE and apps also should work. A few more a plagued by compiler
bugs of egcs-current, most important parts of Kerberos 5. Postgresql and
mysql would need some minor porting work.
It's a relativly important compiler bug in gcc-current which preferably hits
C++ but also some plain C programs, so if there is anybody who's interested
in fixing that one ...
Btw, I've kept my Origin 200 up and running for weeks and compile packages.
It's fairly close to reach the lower levels of workhorse qualities.
Ralf
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